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A "Black cat" returning from night raid over New Guinea, dips low over hides' roof
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Hide's hotel, well known to northern tourists before the war, was the first living quarters in Cairns for pilots and officers of the Royal Australian Air Force Catalina Squadron operating from Trinity...ART25626
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A Mariner of the air-sea rescue flight at anchor, Trinity Inlet, Cairns
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A Martin Mariner patrol-bomber flying boat of the Royal Australian Air Force riding at anchor at the flying boat base, Cairns.ART25632
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B25, Cairns
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Maker: Annand, Douglas
A North American B25 Mitchell bomber aircraft being attended to by workers while on the tarmac in Cairns.ART92437
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Black cats taking off from Trinity Inlet
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Showing Catalina flying boats of the Royal Australian Air Force taking off on a night bombing raid over New Guinea. From August 1945 in his capacity as official war artist Emerson Curtis undertook a t...ART25634
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Cairns
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Depicts a coastal scene with buildings and boats in the middle foreground and hills in the background.ART29928
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Cairns, coastal defences, Bofors, submarine boom cats coming in to land
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Four figures of soldiers on the beach in Cairns, aircraft flying overhead. In the foreground is one of the Bofors guns that forms part of the Cairns defence. Also shown, crossing the mud flats left by...ART23751
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Cairns Railway Station
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts from a high vantage point a view of Cairns Railway Station, 1944.ART25849
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Cairns staging camp
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A view of a staging camp in Cairns, which was used for many of the Australian Army Military personnel on their way to New Guinea during Second World WarART29967
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Caricature around the bar
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Officers if the 11th Air-Sea Rescue Flight, Royal Australian Air Force, Cairns.ART25667
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Cypher officer (section officer Jean Ewing)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a portrait of an unidenfied Cypher Officer, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force serving at Group 824, Royal Australian Air Force,Cairns, Queensland.ART24303
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Embarkation of 7th Australian Division troops
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Showing troops of this Division embarking onto an L.S.T (Landing ship, tank) for Morotai and thence to Balikpapan for the amphibious landing, 'OBOE TWO'. Smith Creek, Cairns, Queensland.ART22411
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Embarkation, U.S.S. Mexico
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts unidentified members of 6th Australian Division carrying a full tropical kit, including newly issued 'folding cots', boarding the troop ship U.S.S. Mexico at wharf. A portion of the superstruc...ART23928
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Hudson and B25, Cairns
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Maker: Annand, Douglas
Depicts a Lockheed Hudson aircraft flying in Cairns. A North American B25 Mitchell bomber aircraft is on the ground below surrounded by several figures.ART92464
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Land headquarters medical research unit
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
The Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit in a mountainous setting at Redlynch, near Cairns, Queensland. At centre a soldier carries a white sack over his shoulder, whilst other groups of men walk t...ART24372
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Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Blackburn
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ruthven Bickerton Blackburn, Commanding and Senior Physician of the Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit (LHQ, 1MRU), Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC). Du...ART24376
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Loading of Artillery onto L.S.T.s
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Personnel of 7th Australian Division loading L.S.T.S (Landing ships, tank) with artillery and stores to be used in the amphibious landing at Balikpapan. The first stage of the voyage was to Morotai, t...ART22410
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Mail day
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Maker: Annand, Douglas
Depicts a man sorting mail, with several faces peering in through a window to his left.ART92470
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Officers and men of Catalina Squadron playing basketball
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Showing personnel of the Royal Australian Air Force stationed at the Catalina flying boat base at Trinity Inlet, relaxing during the day. They were operating nightly over New Guinea.ART25625
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Officer's mess, home of the flying-boat squadrons, Cairns
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
From this typical North Queensland house, young fliers of the Royal Australian Air Force went out nightly on bombing missions over New Guinea, to return when the sun was up, to a meal and a long sleep...ART25627
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RAAF Orchestra Cairns camp
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts audience in front of open air stage holding orchestra. Mountains outlined behind and sickle moon. The artist has added touches to this work since as evidenced by the darker (fresher) ink here ...ART28135
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Recreation in No. 3 hold
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Showing troops of the 7th Australian Division on board the Liberty ship U.S.S Jefferson Davis laying on their hammocks playing cards on the voyage from Cairns to Morotai en route to the emphibious ass...ART25939
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Rhythm of the take-off
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A Royal Australian Air Force Catalina flying boat leaving Trinity Inlet, Cairns.ART25633
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Sleeping berths, digger style
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Maker: Bush, Charles
An impression of the Cairns military train at night. As the carriages are to crowded for all the stretch out, many prefer to sleep on the floor or in the corridors to get a reasonable sleep despite pe...ART23747
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Soldier, 16th Brigade, resting during exercises
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Maker: Dargie, William
A member of 16th Australian Infantry Brigade during exercises. He is sitting down, smoking a cigarette and wearing a tin helmet. The work was sketched near White Cliffs Bay.ART26204
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The big figtree in Abbott street
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Beneath its great branches, an ugly concrete air-raid shelter stood during the war years, Cairns, Queensland.ART25630
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"Wharf sitting"
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Members of the Royal Australian Air Force and one American, all with island postings after peace with Japan was declared, wait dejectedly for air transport.ART25629